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Solaris Naming Setup and Configuration Guide

NIS Configuration Steps

After your Solaris 7 release software and nsswitch.conf files are installed, and your domain planned, you must perform the following steps to configure NIS:

  1. Prepare the master server (see "Preparing the Master Server").

  2. Configure the NIS master server (see "How to Set Up the Master Server With ypinit").

  3. Start the NIS daemons on the master server (see "Starting NIS Service on the Master Server").

  4. Configure your slave servers (see "Setting Up NIS Slave Servers").

  5. Configure NIS client machines (see "Setting Up NIS Clients").

Note -

In some contexts, machine names are referred to as host names or workstation names. This discussion uses "machine," but some screen messages or NIS map names may use host or workstation.

The following sections explain these steps in detail.